Four Seasons of Solitude
"The history of the family was a machine with repetitions, a turning wheel that would have gone on spilling into eternity were it not for the progressive and irremediable wearing of the axle." - Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude.
An almost perfect finale. Probably not quite the absolute best in the series (I think that title still belongs to the climactic episode, "Connor's Wedding", which delivered on the promise of the pilot); however, "With Open Eyes" was a finale that put everything in its natural resting place and reached the series' uncontrived judgment concerning these people and their lives: "We are bulls**t. You are bulls**t. I am bulls**t. We're nothing."
The big game continues and its self destructive cycles go on and on. It doesn't make any of its players happy - it forces them to live in a gilded prison of emotional abuse and nihilistic emptiness. But why do we, on the outside, care? Because of episode 8. That's why.
An almost perfect finale. Probably not quite the absolute best in the series (I think that title still belongs to the climactic episode, "Connor's Wedding", which delivered on the promise of the pilot); however, "With Open Eyes" was a finale that put everything in its natural resting place and reached the series' uncontrived judgment concerning these people and their lives: "We are bulls**t. You are bulls**t. I am bulls**t. We're nothing."
The big game continues and its self destructive cycles go on and on. It doesn't make any of its players happy - it forces them to live in a gilded prison of emotional abuse and nihilistic emptiness. But why do we, on the outside, care? Because of episode 8. That's why.
- jay-95578
- May 31, 2023